An Elusive Utopia By The Sea

By Lionel Rolfe

Venice, CA: A City State Of Mind by John O’Kane. Hard cover edition is $26.95.

The traditional happening places for the arts in Los Angeles are two–and it’s been this way since the ’20s and earlier. One is Echo Park near downtown and the other is Venice by the sea. But Venice has captured more of the romance, perhaps because its history has been rich and porous enough there’s this terrible tendency to want to sum it all up, to say what exactly it means.

John O’Kane’s at times rambling but nonetheless intriguing book length essay sums up the history, the observations, the artists and writers and poets great and famous and obscure who have lurked among the dark shadows of this Nirvana by the sea. O’Kane has lived long enough in Venice to know a lot of the characters personally, and he describes walking the famed boardwalk or supping at coffeehouse tables with many of them in engaging and vivid terms.O’Kane is offering a portrait of the community not just by its well known physical appearances such as the canals modeled after the Venice in Italy by Abbot Kinney near the turn of the last century, but also the back story about the more abstract and thus unseen forces that molded its unique state of mind.

O’Kane takes us on a tour of works like Norman Mailer’s 1957 “The White Negro,” Herbert Marcuse’s writings about the counter culture in the ’60s, and Jack Kerouac’s “On The Road” to lay the foundation for the weltanschauung–the world view–of the Venice community.

It’s true that Venice was always second to San Francisco in the Beat firmament. San Francisco, of course, produced Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” and writers and poets such as Kenneth Rexroth, Kenneth Patchen and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. San Francisco eclipsed Los Angeles, still out of Venice came Larry Lipton’s “The Holy Barbarian” and such important poets as Stu Perkoff, John Thomas and Philomene Long. The term “Beatnik” came directly from San Francisco newspaper columnist Herb Caen, who also later invented the term “hippy,” of whom there were many in Venice. Both San Francisco and Venice suffered from a great many poseurs, who swelled the ranks of the counter culture in both places.I particularly enjoyed O’Kane’s take on Lipton, whose house I hung out in for several days when I was first hired as a writer at the old Los Angeles Free Press. Art Kunkin, the proprietor who I knew from the coffeehouse scene of the ‘60s, felt that I wasn’t quite sufficiently counter culture, so he sent me to Lipton to get counter culture lessons.

I wasn’t very taken with Lipton, who wrote a rather turgid and shrill column for the old Free Press called “Radio Free America.”

Still, as unappetizing as Lipton was, “The Holy Barbarians” brought people from across the country to the new beat paradise on the Pacific. O’Kane paints a picture of a place suddenly overrun with hundreds of folks who looked counter culture, but were essentially tourists and poseurs.

And that’s what O’Kane is trying to explain in this book–the true state of mind of Venice. Even in the mid-50s when as a young teenager I used to bicycle from my West Los Angeles home to hang out in the old Beat coffeehouses, the place only tangentially seemed a part of Los Angeles.

O’Kane argues that of the hundreds of poseurs and faux beats who moved into Venice, there may have been no more than 50 real artists and poets at any one time. You couldn’t really tell the difference who were the wannabes and who were the real thing just by how they looked.

What there was was the very genuine intensity in the community’s state of mind. And yes, perhaps it was as much illusion as reality, but the illusion took on a lot of reality.

And besides, there was considerable talent in Venice, even if there were also a large number of poseurs. Among the talented denizens was, as we’ve mentioned, Philomene Long, who lived in the area around Dudley Avenue where the Venice West Café was long gone, but still strongly remembered. She raised some ire by cultivating the many pigeons who landed on her window sills, because their ancestors had been imported from Italy by Kinney for the American Venice.

Long wasn’t completely enamored of the old beat scene. She described the ’50s Venice beats as “a womanizing boy’s club.” Philomene was a former nun.

O’Kane knew her well, and knows some of the less celebrated but still talented residents such as Gerry Fialka, who carries on the tradition by his classes on James Joyce at the Venice library–and his love of Marshall McLuhan, the media guru of the ’60s. O’Kane describes often running into Fialka who is a regular around the “Dudley corridor,” where the beats initially were. Sometimes he’d find him daydreaming along the boardwalk.

Venice’s heyday at the height of the mythology making was from 1905, but when the Great Depression set in the ‘30s and War came along in the ‘40s, Venice was providing an increasingly seedy backdrop. It was at the height of this decline in the late 50s that Orson Well’s filmed his “Touch of Evil” there. The decaying canals, the forest of oil derricks, provided a bleak landscape indeed that stamped the film a great classic from the beginning. An odd touch–the main hotel in that film was a reproduction of a famed hotel in Venice in Italy created during the Kinney years. It’s shabby grandeur molded the film as well.

In the contemporary times we’re in, Venice is being yanked away from the original Kinney version by extreme gentrification, which is pushing out almost every body but the rich. That means the spirit of rebellion against authority is under threat. The boardwalk gives a harmless hint of earlier, grander times–by the presence of barkers, the flamethrowers, animal trainers, writers and artists. It’s a kind of great freak show which has made Venice’s boardwalk a wonderful tourist mecca. But it is really only tangentially related to Venice of yore, and hence to its true state of mind.

Don’t assume that these things are innocent. O’Kane describes how the official Venice history tried to bury the counter culture years, and yet in the American and European culture more people know Venice for that than anything else. There’s nothing really that threatening to the established order on the boardwalk today, and the last of the oil derricks disappeared in 1974.

When I was writing for the Los Angeles Free Press in the early ‘70s I lived in the Windward Hotel on the Boardwalk, next door down the alley to the national headquarters of the Satan Slaves outlaw motorcycle gang. My neighbors in the hotel were mainly heroin addicts who broke down my door one time to steal my sound system.

Today’s establishment in Venice tend to lump the counter culture as just part of the place’s seediness, which they are dedicated to eradicating. There was a bit of truth to this, which O’Kane documents in several places in this book.

But he also contrasts the image of two of the greatest writers of the 20th century, Aldous Huxley and Thomas Mann, strolling down the beach just south of Venice, discussing ultimate meanings. Nowadays you’re more likely to find strolling screenwriters, talking about their latest scores in real estate..

And the great film director Jules Dassin hung out in the home of a violinist friend of my mother’s, Rachel Pickard, in Venice, before he escaped the McCarthyite blacklist by going to Europe where he made such movies as “Zorba The Greek” and “Neveron Sunday.”

O’Kane points out that the buildings around the Dudley corridor were built in the Kinney era. A lot of the folks living homeless now in Venice were proud tenants in the pre-gentrification era. Most of the newer stuff–the gleaming, gated towers on the beach–are beyond the means of old bohemians.

Some people just left when they could no longer keep it together. One of them was poet John Haag, who was proprietor of the Venice West at 7 Dudley. Folks like Alan Ginsberg hung and read there. Haag was a major force in the beat scene.

The bohemian remnants and the hip developers were locked in eternal conflict. For the few bohemian remnants left over from “The Holy Barbarian” days, it would come down to this. They liked it when the real estate bubble broke and the arrogant landlord types had to go on the lam.

Of course the dreams of the counter culture and the gentrifiers was bound to be significantly different. So you can visualize it, O’Kane puts it this way. Talking about the paranoia that sometimes grips Venice’s counter culture remnants, he notes that “since gossip tends to grow like mold on the bathroom ceilings of our dozer-ready hovels, whispers reach a crescendo…”

O’Kane notes that the Venice story includes a lot of the spirit of the emancipated surfs who became known as the Diggers in England in the 1680s. The Diggers were battling for the land that was freed up in the transition from Feudalism to the Industrial Age. Ultimately they lost, and perhaps the last real bohemian will finally be vanquished from the scene, but something of the Diggers remains among the last genuine Venice haunts that O’Kane inhabits.

O’Kane’s book is all about the fragile state of mind of Venice by the sea. It’s a state of mind that exists in many minds, but our minds are frail. We all have a tenuous hold on reality–yet the hold of a vision that has molded the citystate of Venice is still potent, as this book shows.
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Lionel Rolfe is the author of “Literary L.A.” along with several other books, available on Amazon’s Kindlestore and elsewhere.

Beyond the Valley of the Flight Attendants

Enjoy Beyond the Valley of the Flight Attendants, at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays Feb. 27 through March 28, at The Found Theatre in Long Beach. In an age when “calculated misery” is the new business model for major air carriers, nobody does misery like SuperSaver Airlines. Tickets are $20 for first class and $15 for the penny pincher.

Beyond the Valley of the Flight Attendants

Enjoy Beyond the Valley of the Flight Attendants, at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays Feb. 27 through March 28, at The Found Theatre in Long Beach. In an age when “calculated misery” is the new business model for major air carriers, nobody does misery like SuperSaver Airlines. Tickets are $20 for first class and $15 for the penny pincher.

Dave Widow and the Line Up

Dave Widow and the Line Up will perform, at 8 p.m. Feb. 28, at the Grand Annex in San Pedro. Dave Widow brings a rock, and rhythm and blues-flavored show featuring songs from his Waiting for The World to End CD. Special guests guitarist Bernie Pearl and bassist Mike Barry will add to the show. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door.
Details: (310) 833-4813; www.grandvision.org
Venue: Grand Annex
Location: 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro

Stop Kiss

The CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Theatre and Dance will debut its third show of the 2014-2015 season, Stop Kiss, a funny and sensitive love story, at 8 p.m. Feb. 27 in the Edison Theatre. The show will also be performed on Feb. 28, March 6, 7, 13 and 14 at 8 p.m., and on March 1, 8 and 15 at 2 p.m.

35th Annual Quilt Show

The South Bay Quilters Guild presents its 35th Annual Quilt Show: Square Root of Nine, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 1, at the Torrance Cultural Arts Center. View more than 200 member quilts and garments on display in the Quilt Gallery. Admission is $8. Children younger than 10 get in free.

Stop Kiss

The CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Theatre and Dance will debut its third show of the 2014-2015 season, Stop Kiss, a funny and sensitive love story, at 8 p.m. Feb. 27 in the Edison Theatre. The show will also be performed on Feb. 28, March 6, 7, 13 and 14 at 8 p.m., and on March 1, 8 and 15 at 2 p.m.

Little Squirts

Experience Little Squirts, from 1:30 to 3 p.m. March 4 through 25, at Cabrillo Marine Aquarium in San Pedro. The class is offered for 2 to 4 year-olds participating with their parents or guardians. The cost for four weekly sessions is $30 ($27 for members) and includes a child’s Little Squirts T-shirt.

Sea Club

Kindergarten through second grade students enrolled in Cabrillo Marine Aquarium’s SEA Club (Science Education Afternoons) will learn while having fun exploring the local marine environment, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. March 4 through 25. The Aquarium’s marine laboratory classroom will serve as a base station for hands-on ocean exploration. The cost for four weekly sessions is $30 ($27 for members) and includes a SEA Club T-shirt.

Can the Artists of the World be Censored?

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Ties to Modernism

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Varnette Honeywood

In honor of Black History Month, the University Library at California State University Dominguez Hills presents an exhibit featuring selected works from acclaimed African-American artist and illustrator Varnette P. Honeywood, through the end of May, in the Library Picture Art Gallery. The exhibit complements two other Black History Month exhibitions at the University Library: The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles: The Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection and the annual African American Quilters of Los Angeles Quilt Exhibition.

Klaus Center for the Arts Opening

The grand opening and dedication of the Marylyn & Chuck Klaus Center for the Arts will take place on at 6 p.m. March 5 in San Pedro. The festivities include the debut of the student gallery and musical performances by the Marymount Jazz Ensemble.

Can the Artists of the World be Censored?

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Ties to Modernism

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Varnette Honeywood

In honor of Black History Month, the University Library at California State University Dominguez Hills presents an exhibit featuring selected works from acclaimed African-American artist and illustrator Varnette P. Honeywood, through the end of May, in the Library Picture Art Gallery. The exhibit complements two other Black History Month exhibitions at the University Library: The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles: The Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection and the annual African American Quilters of Los Angeles Quilt Exhibition.

Batala Los Angeles

Batala Los Angeles will perform with the Taiko Center of Los Angeles, at 8 p.m. March 6, at the Grand Annex in San Pedro. The Taiko Center of Los Angeles explores rhythms of the world with drumming, dance and special guests.

Beyond the Valley of the Flight Attendants

Enjoy Beyond the Valley of the Flight Attendants, at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays Feb. 27 through March 28, at The Found Theatre in Long Beach. In an age when “calculated misery” is the new business model for major air carriers, nobody does misery like SuperSaver Airlines. Tickets are $20 for first class and $15 for the penny pincher.

Stop Kiss

The CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Theatre and Dance will debut its third show of the 2014-2015 season, Stop Kiss, a funny and sensitive love story, at 8 p.m. Feb. 27 in the Edison Theatre. The show will also be performed on Feb. 28, March 6, 7, 13 and 14 at 8 p.m., and on March 1, 8 and 15 at 2 p.m.

Taking Sides

The Little Fish Theatre presents Taking Sides, at 8 p.m. March 6 through April 4. The short play is about a U.S. officer investigating individuals and their ties with the Nazi party. On March 29, the play will show at 2 p.m. Individual tickets are $27 and $25 for seniors.

The Real Thing

Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing is being performed at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and at 2 p.m. Sundays through March 28, at the Long Beach Playhouse. The Real Thing is about an articulate and romantically idealistic playwright who receives a challenge from his wife: take the inept play of a "political prisoner" named Brodie and rework it into a theatrical triumph. In the process, the writer must show his wife that Brodie is more of a thug than a victim of political repression, all the while challenging his own long-held concepts of love, marriage and fidelity. Tickets for adults are $24, seniors $21 and students $14.

Can the Artists of the World be Censored?

Can the Artists of the World be Censored? puts together art work by the artists who were interviewed in a recent article by Andrea Serna for Random Lengths Newspaper, documenting artists reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Ties to Modernism

Ties to Modernism reaffirms the continued relevance of modernism in today’s eclectic post-modern world and gives a glimpse into the processes that lead from modernism to post-modernism. The show runs through April 12.

Varnette Honeywood

In honor of Black History Month, the University Library at California State University Dominguez Hills presents an exhibit featuring selected works from acclaimed African-American artist and illustrator Varnette P. Honeywood, through the end of May, in the Library Picture Art Gallery. The exhibit complements two other Black History Month exhibitions at the University Library: The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles: The Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection and the annual African American Quilters of Los Angeles Quilt Exhibition.

Taking Sides

The Little Fish Theatre presents Taking Sides, at 8 p.m. March 6 through April 4. The short play is about a U.S. officer investigating individuals and their ties with the Nazi party. On March 29, the play will show at 2 p.m. Individual tickets are $27 and $25 for seniors.

The Penis and Vagina Talk Shows

The Long Beach Playhouse presents The Vagina Talk Show and The Penis Talk Show, 6 and 8:15 p.m. on March 7, in Long Beach. Look at human sexuality that as three individuals recline onstage and let their genitalia do the talking as they answer questions from the audience and share personal stories.

Beyond the Valley of the Flight Attendants

Enjoy Beyond the Valley of the Flight Attendants, at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays Feb. 27 through March 28, at The Found Theatre in Long Beach. In an age when “calculated misery” is the new business model for major air carriers, nobody does misery like SuperSaver Airlines. Tickets are $20 for first class and $15 for the penny pincher.

Cirque Mechanics

The CSU Long Beach presents Cirque Mechanics, at 8 p.m. March 7, at the Richard and Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center. Encounter a circus unicycles that fly, wheel acrobats that hover, cyclists that whirl, pole climbers that soar and trapeze artists that float.

Stop Kiss

The CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Theatre and Dance will debut its third show of the 2014-2015 season, Stop Kiss, a funny and sensitive love story, at 8 p.m. Feb. 27 in the Edison Theatre. The show will also be performed on Feb. 28, March 6, 7, 13 and 14 at 8 p.m., and on March 1, 8 and 15 at 2 p.m.

The Real Thing

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The Penis and Vagina Talk Shows

The Long Beach Playhouse presents The Vagina Talk Show and The Penis Talk Show, 6 and 8:15 p.m. on March 7, in Long Beach. Look at human sexuality that as three individuals recline onstage and let their genitalia do the talking as they answer questions from the audience and share personal stories.

Can the Artists of the World be Censored?

Can the Artists of the World be Censored? puts together art work by the artists who were interviewed in a recent article by Andrea Serna for Random Lengths Newspaper, documenting artists reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Ties to Modernism

Ties to Modernism reaffirms the continued relevance of modernism in today’s eclectic post-modern world and gives a glimpse into the processes that lead from modernism to post-modernism. The show runs through April 12.

Varnette Honeywood

In honor of Black History Month, the University Library at California State University Dominguez Hills presents an exhibit featuring selected works from acclaimed African-American artist and illustrator Varnette P. Honeywood, through the end of May, in the Library Picture Art Gallery. The exhibit complements two other Black History Month exhibitions at the University Library: The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles: The Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection and the annual African American Quilters of Los Angeles Quilt Exhibition.

Taking Sides

The Little Fish Theatre presents Taking Sides, at 8 p.m. March 6 through April 4. The short play is about a U.S. officer investigating individuals and their ties with the Nazi party. On March 29, the play will show at 2 p.m. Individual tickets are $27 and $25 for seniors.

Stop Kiss

The CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Theatre and Dance will debut its third show of the 2014-2015 season, Stop Kiss, a funny and sensitive love story, at 8 p.m. Feb. 27 in the Edison Theatre. The show will also be performed on Feb. 28, March 6, 7, 13 and 14 at 8 p.m., and on March 1, 8 and 15 at 2 p.m.

The Real Thing

Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing is being performed at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and at 2 p.m. Sundays through March 28, at the Long Beach Playhouse. The Real Thing is about an articulate and romantically idealistic playwright who receives a challenge from his wife: take the inept play of a "political prisoner" named Brodie and rework it into a theatrical triumph. In the process, the writer must show his wife that Brodie is more of a thug than a victim of political repression, all the while challenging his own long-held concepts of love, marriage and fidelity. Tickets for adults are $24, seniors $21 and students $14.

Can the Artists of the World be Censored?

Can the Artists of the World be Censored? puts together art work by the artists who were interviewed in a recent article by Andrea Serna for Random Lengths Newspaper, documenting artists reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Ties to Modernism

Ties to Modernism reaffirms the continued relevance of modernism in today’s eclectic post-modern world and gives a glimpse into the processes that lead from modernism to post-modernism. The show runs through April 12.

Varnette Honeywood

In honor of Black History Month, the University Library at California State University Dominguez Hills presents an exhibit featuring selected works from acclaimed African-American artist and illustrator Varnette P. Honeywood, through the end of May, in the Library Picture Art Gallery. The exhibit complements two other Black History Month exhibitions at the University Library: The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles: The Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection and the annual African American Quilters of Los Angeles Quilt Exhibition.

Taking Sides

The Little Fish Theatre presents Taking Sides, at 8 p.m. March 6 through April 4. The short play is about a U.S. officer investigating individuals and their ties with the Nazi party. On March 29, the play will show at 2 p.m. Individual tickets are $27 and $25 for seniors.

Can the Artists of the World be Censored?

Can the Artists of the World be Censored? puts together art work by the artists who were interviewed in a recent article by Andrea Serna for Random Lengths Newspaper, documenting artists reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Ties to Modernism

Ties to Modernism reaffirms the continued relevance of modernism in today’s eclectic post-modern world and gives a glimpse into the processes that lead from modernism to post-modernism. The show runs through April 12.

Varnette Honeywood

In honor of Black History Month, the University Library at California State University Dominguez Hills presents an exhibit featuring selected works from acclaimed African-American artist and illustrator Varnette P. Honeywood, through the end of May, in the Library Picture Art Gallery. The exhibit complements two other Black History Month exhibitions at the University Library: The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles: The Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection and the annual African American Quilters of Los Angeles Quilt Exhibition.

Taking Sides

The Little Fish Theatre presents Taking Sides, at 8 p.m. March 6 through April 4. The short play is about a U.S. officer investigating individuals and their ties with the Nazi party. On March 29, the play will show at 2 p.m. Individual tickets are $27 and $25 for seniors.

Can the Artists of the World be Censored?

Can the Artists of the World be Censored? puts together art work by the artists who were interviewed in a recent article by Andrea Serna for Random Lengths Newspaper, documenting artists reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Ties to Modernism

Ties to Modernism reaffirms the continued relevance of modernism in today’s eclectic post-modern world and gives a glimpse into the processes that lead from modernism to post-modernism. The show runs through April 12.

Varnette Honeywood

In honor of Black History Month, the University Library at California State University Dominguez Hills presents an exhibit featuring selected works from acclaimed African-American artist and illustrator Varnette P. Honeywood, through the end of May, in the Library Picture Art Gallery. The exhibit complements two other Black History Month exhibitions at the University Library: The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles: The Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection and the annual African American Quilters of Los Angeles Quilt Exhibition.

Taking Sides

The Little Fish Theatre presents Taking Sides, at 8 p.m. March 6 through April 4. The short play is about a U.S. officer investigating individuals and their ties with the Nazi party. On March 29, the play will show at 2 p.m. Individual tickets are $27 and $25 for seniors.

Bettman and Halpin

CSU Long Beach presents Bettman and Halpin, 7 p.m. on March 11 and March 12, at the Richard and Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach. The duo will perform a mixture of folk, roots, bluegrass and jazz with transcendent harmonies and roof-raising instrumentals.

Can the Artists of the World be Censored?

Can the Artists of the World be Censored? puts together art work by the artists who were interviewed in a recent article by Andrea Serna for Random Lengths Newspaper, documenting artists reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Ties to Modernism

Ties to Modernism reaffirms the continued relevance of modernism in today’s eclectic post-modern world and gives a glimpse into the processes that lead from modernism to post-modernism. The show runs through April 12.

Varnette Honeywood

In honor of Black History Month, the University Library at California State University Dominguez Hills presents an exhibit featuring selected works from acclaimed African-American artist and illustrator Varnette P. Honeywood, through the end of May, in the Library Picture Art Gallery. The exhibit complements two other Black History Month exhibitions at the University Library: The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles: The Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection and the annual African American Quilters of Los Angeles Quilt Exhibition.

Taking Sides

The Little Fish Theatre presents Taking Sides, at 8 p.m. March 6 through April 4. The short play is about a U.S. officer investigating individuals and their ties with the Nazi party. On March 29, the play will show at 2 p.m. Individual tickets are $27 and $25 for seniors.

Bettman and Halpin

CSU Long Beach presents Bettman and Halpin, 7 p.m. on March 11 and March 12, at the Richard and Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach. The duo will perform a mixture of folk, roots, bluegrass and jazz with transcendent harmonies and roof-raising instrumentals.

Can the Artists of the World be Censored?

Can the Artists of the World be Censored? puts together art work by the artists who were interviewed in a recent article by Andrea Serna for Random Lengths Newspaper, documenting artists reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Ties to Modernism

Ties to Modernism reaffirms the continued relevance of modernism in today’s eclectic post-modern world and gives a glimpse into the processes that lead from modernism to post-modernism. The show runs through April 12.

Varnette Honeywood

In honor of Black History Month, the University Library at California State University Dominguez Hills presents an exhibit featuring selected works from acclaimed African-American artist and illustrator Varnette P. Honeywood, through the end of May, in the Library Picture Art Gallery. The exhibit complements two other Black History Month exhibitions at the University Library: The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles: The Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection and the annual African American Quilters of Los Angeles Quilt Exhibition.

Taking Sides

The Little Fish Theatre presents Taking Sides, at 8 p.m. March 6 through April 4. The short play is about a U.S. officer investigating individuals and their ties with the Nazi party. On March 29, the play will show at 2 p.m. Individual tickets are $27 and $25 for seniors.

Beyond the Valley of the Flight Attendants

Enjoy Beyond the Valley of the Flight Attendants, at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays Feb. 27 through March 28, at The Found Theatre in Long Beach. In an age when “calculated misery” is the new business model for major air carriers, nobody does misery like SuperSaver Airlines. Tickets are $20 for first class and $15 for the penny pincher.

Stop Kiss

The CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Theatre and Dance will debut its third show of the 2014-2015 season, Stop Kiss, a funny and sensitive love story, at 8 p.m. Feb. 27 in the Edison Theatre. The show will also be performed on Feb. 28, March 6, 7, 13 and 14 at 8 p.m., and on March 1, 8 and 15 at 2 p.m.

The Real Thing

Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing is being performed at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and at 2 p.m. Sundays through March 28, at the Long Beach Playhouse. The Real Thing is about an articulate and romantically idealistic playwright who receives a challenge from his wife: take the inept play of a "political prisoner" named Brodie and rework it into a theatrical triumph. In the process, the writer must show his wife that Brodie is more of a thug than a victim of political repression, all the while challenging his own long-held concepts of love, marriage and fidelity. Tickets for adults are $24, seniors $21 and students $14.

Can the Artists of the World be Censored?

Can the Artists of the World be Censored? puts together art work by the artists who were interviewed in a recent article by Andrea Serna for Random Lengths Newspaper, documenting artists reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Ties to Modernism

Ties to Modernism reaffirms the continued relevance of modernism in today’s eclectic post-modern world and gives a glimpse into the processes that lead from modernism to post-modernism. The show runs through April 12.

Varnette Honeywood

In honor of Black History Month, the University Library at California State University Dominguez Hills presents an exhibit featuring selected works from acclaimed African-American artist and illustrator Varnette P. Honeywood, through the end of May, in the Library Picture Art Gallery. The exhibit complements two other Black History Month exhibitions at the University Library: The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles: The Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection and the annual African American Quilters of Los Angeles Quilt Exhibition.

Taking Sides

The Little Fish Theatre presents Taking Sides, at 8 p.m. March 6 through April 4. The short play is about a U.S. officer investigating individuals and their ties with the Nazi party. On March 29, the play will show at 2 p.m. Individual tickets are $27 and $25 for seniors.

Music Under the Guns

As one of the premier community bands in Orange County, Battleship IOWA is proud to be host to the Golden West Pops. This all volunteer community band will serenade guests with performances of patriotic selections, show tunes, popular music, swing, movie melodies and many more! Sit “under the guns” aboard Battleship IOWA while enjoying the warm weather and stunning views of the LA Waterfront. Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for youth/students (w/valid ID) and 5 & under are free.

Beyond the Valley of the Flight Attendants

Enjoy Beyond the Valley of the Flight Attendants, at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays Feb. 27 through March 28, at The Found Theatre in Long Beach. In an age when “calculated misery” is the new business model for major air carriers, nobody does misery like SuperSaver Airlines. Tickets are $20 for first class and $15 for the penny pincher.

Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu

CSU Long Beach presents Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu, a performance that melds storytelling, music and dance with Hawaiian dance at 8 p.m. on March 14 at the Richard and Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach. Experience a sensory-rich performance that shares Hawaiian heritage and expressions in Hawaiian dance.

Stop Kiss

The CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Theatre and Dance will debut its third show of the 2014-2015 season, Stop Kiss, a funny and sensitive love story, at 8 p.m. Feb. 27 in the Edison Theatre. The show will also be performed on Feb. 28, March 6, 7, 13 and 14 at 8 p.m., and on March 1, 8 and 15 at 2 p.m.

The Real Thing

Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing is being performed at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and at 2 p.m. Sundays through March 28, at the Long Beach Playhouse. The Real Thing is about an articulate and romantically idealistic playwright who receives a challenge from his wife: take the inept play of a "political prisoner" named Brodie and rework it into a theatrical triumph. In the process, the writer must show his wife that Brodie is more of a thug than a victim of political repression, all the while challenging his own long-held concepts of love, marriage and fidelity. Tickets for adults are $24, seniors $21 and students $14.

Can the Artists of the World be Censored?

Can the Artists of the World be Censored? puts together art work by the artists who were interviewed in a recent article by Andrea Serna for Random Lengths Newspaper, documenting artists reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Ties to Modernism

Ties to Modernism reaffirms the continued relevance of modernism in today’s eclectic post-modern world and gives a glimpse into the processes that lead from modernism to post-modernism. The show runs through April 12.

Varnette Honeywood

In honor of Black History Month, the University Library at California State University Dominguez Hills presents an exhibit featuring selected works from acclaimed African-American artist and illustrator Varnette P. Honeywood, through the end of May, in the Library Picture Art Gallery. The exhibit complements two other Black History Month exhibitions at the University Library: The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles: The Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection and the annual African American Quilters of Los Angeles Quilt Exhibition.

Taking Sides

The Little Fish Theatre presents Taking Sides, at 8 p.m. March 6 through April 4. The short play is about a U.S. officer investigating individuals and their ties with the Nazi party. On March 29, the play will show at 2 p.m. Individual tickets are $27 and $25 for seniors.

David Sanborn

Experience an evening of smooth jazz with David Sanborn, one of the most acclaimed saxophonist for more than four decades, at 2 p.m. on March 15 at the Richard and Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach.

Stop Kiss

The CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Theatre and Dance will debut its third show of the 2014-2015 season, Stop Kiss, a funny and sensitive love story, at 8 p.m. Feb. 27 in the Edison Theatre. The show will also be performed on Feb. 28, March 6, 7, 13 and 14 at 8 p.m., and on March 1, 8 and 15 at 2 p.m.

The Real Thing

Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing is being performed at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and at 2 p.m. Sundays through March 28, at the Long Beach Playhouse. The Real Thing is about an articulate and romantically idealistic playwright who receives a challenge from his wife: take the inept play of a "political prisoner" named Brodie and rework it into a theatrical triumph. In the process, the writer must show his wife that Brodie is more of a thug than a victim of political repression, all the while challenging his own long-held concepts of love, marriage and fidelity. Tickets for adults are $24, seniors $21 and students $14.

A Spoonful of Sherman: A Symphonic Concert

A quintet of dynamic vocalists and a children’s chorus will join the Golden State Pops Orchestra for a family-friendly concert to celebrate the music of Richard and Robert Sherman. The sibling songwriting team has penned some of the most memorable melodies in the Disney songbook. The performance is scheduled to start at 3 p.m. March 15, at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center.

Can the Artists of the World be Censored?

Can the Artists of the World be Censored? puts together art work by the artists who were interviewed in a recent article by Andrea Serna for Random Lengths Newspaper, documenting artists reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Ties to Modernism

Ties to Modernism reaffirms the continued relevance of modernism in today’s eclectic post-modern world and gives a glimpse into the processes that lead from modernism to post-modernism. The show runs through April 12.

Varnette Honeywood

In honor of Black History Month, the University Library at California State University Dominguez Hills presents an exhibit featuring selected works from acclaimed African-American artist and illustrator Varnette P. Honeywood, through the end of May, in the Library Picture Art Gallery. The exhibit complements two other Black History Month exhibitions at the University Library: The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles: The Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection and the annual African American Quilters of Los Angeles Quilt Exhibition.

Taking Sides

The Little Fish Theatre presents Taking Sides, at 8 p.m. March 6 through April 4. The short play is about a U.S. officer investigating individuals and their ties with the Nazi party. On March 29, the play will show at 2 p.m. Individual tickets are $27 and $25 for seniors.

Can the Artists of the World be Censored?

Can the Artists of the World be Censored? puts together art work by the artists who were interviewed in a recent article by Andrea Serna for Random Lengths Newspaper, documenting artists reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Ties to Modernism

Ties to Modernism reaffirms the continued relevance of modernism in today’s eclectic post-modern world and gives a glimpse into the processes that lead from modernism to post-modernism. The show runs through April 12.

Varnette Honeywood

In honor of Black History Month, the University Library at California State University Dominguez Hills presents an exhibit featuring selected works from acclaimed African-American artist and illustrator Varnette P. Honeywood, through the end of May, in the Library Picture Art Gallery. The exhibit complements two other Black History Month exhibitions at the University Library: The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles: The Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection and the annual African American Quilters of Los Angeles Quilt Exhibition.

Taking Sides

The Little Fish Theatre presents Taking Sides, at 8 p.m. March 6 through April 4. The short play is about a U.S. officer investigating individuals and their ties with the Nazi party. On March 29, the play will show at 2 p.m. Individual tickets are $27 and $25 for seniors.

Can the Artists of the World be Censored?

Can the Artists of the World be Censored? puts together art work by the artists who were interviewed in a recent article by Andrea Serna for Random Lengths Newspaper, documenting artists reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Ties to Modernism

Ties to Modernism reaffirms the continued relevance of modernism in today’s eclectic post-modern world and gives a glimpse into the processes that lead from modernism to post-modernism. The show runs through April 12.

Varnette Honeywood

In honor of Black History Month, the University Library at California State University Dominguez Hills presents an exhibit featuring selected works from acclaimed African-American artist and illustrator Varnette P. Honeywood, through the end of May, in the Library Picture Art Gallery. The exhibit complements two other Black History Month exhibitions at the University Library: The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles: The Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection and the annual African American Quilters of Los Angeles Quilt Exhibition.

Taking Sides

The Little Fish Theatre presents Taking Sides, at 8 p.m. March 6 through April 4. The short play is about a U.S. officer investigating individuals and their ties with the Nazi party. On March 29, the play will show at 2 p.m. Individual tickets are $27 and $25 for seniors.

Can the Artists of the World be Censored?

Can the Artists of the World be Censored? puts together art work by the artists who were interviewed in a recent article by Andrea Serna for Random Lengths Newspaper, documenting artists reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Ties to Modernism

Ties to Modernism reaffirms the continued relevance of modernism in today’s eclectic post-modern world and gives a glimpse into the processes that lead from modernism to post-modernism. The show runs through April 12.

Varnette Honeywood

In honor of Black History Month, the University Library at California State University Dominguez Hills presents an exhibit featuring selected works from acclaimed African-American artist and illustrator Varnette P. Honeywood, through the end of May, in the Library Picture Art Gallery. The exhibit complements two other Black History Month exhibitions at the University Library: The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles: The Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection and the annual African American Quilters of Los Angeles Quilt Exhibition.

Taking Sides

The Little Fish Theatre presents Taking Sides, at 8 p.m. March 6 through April 4. The short play is about a U.S. officer investigating individuals and their ties with the Nazi party. On March 29, the play will show at 2 p.m. Individual tickets are $27 and $25 for seniors.

Can the Artists of the World be Censored?

Can the Artists of the World be Censored? puts together art work by the artists who were interviewed in a recent article by Andrea Serna for Random Lengths Newspaper, documenting artists reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Ties to Modernism

Ties to Modernism reaffirms the continued relevance of modernism in today’s eclectic post-modern world and gives a glimpse into the processes that lead from modernism to post-modernism. The show runs through April 12.

Varnette Honeywood

In honor of Black History Month, the University Library at California State University Dominguez Hills presents an exhibit featuring selected works from acclaimed African-American artist and illustrator Varnette P. Honeywood, through the end of May, in the Library Picture Art Gallery. The exhibit complements two other Black History Month exhibitions at the University Library: The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles: The Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection and the annual African American Quilters of Los Angeles Quilt Exhibition.

Taking Sides

The Little Fish Theatre presents Taking Sides, at 8 p.m. March 6 through April 4. The short play is about a U.S. officer investigating individuals and their ties with the Nazi party. On March 29, the play will show at 2 p.m. Individual tickets are $27 and $25 for seniors.

John Elgin Woolf: Master of Hollywood Regency

The Palos Verdes Art Center will present the work of American architect John Elgin Woolf in an exhibition running from March 20 through May 29. More than 50 selections from the Woolf archive currently housed at the Art, Architecture & Design Museum at University of California, Santa Barbara will be available to view.

Beyond the Valley of the Flight Attendants

Enjoy Beyond the Valley of the Flight Attendants, at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays Feb. 27 through March 28, at The Found Theatre in Long Beach. In an age when “calculated misery” is the new business model for major air carriers, nobody does misery like SuperSaver Airlines. Tickets are $20 for first class and $15 for the penny pincher.

The Real Thing

Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing is being performed at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and at 2 p.m. Sundays through March 28, at the Long Beach Playhouse. The Real Thing is about an articulate and romantically idealistic playwright who receives a challenge from his wife: take the inept play of a "political prisoner" named Brodie and rework it into a theatrical triumph. In the process, the writer must show his wife that Brodie is more of a thug than a victim of political repression, all the while challenging his own long-held concepts of love, marriage and fidelity. Tickets for adults are $24, seniors $21 and students $14.

Can the Artists of the World be Censored?

Can the Artists of the World be Censored? puts together art work by the artists who were interviewed in a recent article by Andrea Serna for Random Lengths Newspaper, documenting artists reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Ties to Modernism

Ties to Modernism reaffirms the continued relevance of modernism in today’s eclectic post-modern world and gives a glimpse into the processes that lead from modernism to post-modernism. The show runs through April 12.

Varnette Honeywood

In honor of Black History Month, the University Library at California State University Dominguez Hills presents an exhibit featuring selected works from acclaimed African-American artist and illustrator Varnette P. Honeywood, through the end of May, in the Library Picture Art Gallery. The exhibit complements two other Black History Month exhibitions at the University Library: The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles: The Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection and the annual African American Quilters of Los Angeles Quilt Exhibition.

Taking Sides

The Little Fish Theatre presents Taking Sides, at 8 p.m. March 6 through April 4. The short play is about a U.S. officer investigating individuals and their ties with the Nazi party. On March 29, the play will show at 2 p.m. Individual tickets are $27 and $25 for seniors.

John Elgin Woolf: Master of Hollywood Regency

The Palos Verdes Art Center will present the work of American architect John Elgin Woolf in an exhibition running from March 20 through May 29. More than 50 selections from the Woolf archive currently housed at the Art, Architecture & Design Museum at University of California, Santa Barbara will be available to view.

Beyond the Valley of the Flight Attendants

Enjoy Beyond the Valley of the Flight Attendants, at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays Feb. 27 through March 28, at The Found Theatre in Long Beach. In an age when “calculated misery” is the new business model for major air carriers, nobody does misery like SuperSaver Airlines. Tickets are $20 for first class and $15 for the penny pincher.

The Real Thing

Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing is being performed at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and at 2 p.m. Sundays through March 28, at the Long Beach Playhouse. The Real Thing is about an articulate and romantically idealistic playwright who receives a challenge from his wife: take the inept play of a "political prisoner" named Brodie and rework it into a theatrical triumph. In the process, the writer must show his wife that Brodie is more of a thug than a victim of political repression, all the while challenging his own long-held concepts of love, marriage and fidelity. Tickets for adults are $24, seniors $21 and students $14.

Can the Artists of the World be Censored?

Can the Artists of the World be Censored? puts together art work by the artists who were interviewed in a recent article by Andrea Serna for Random Lengths Newspaper, documenting artists reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Ties to Modernism

Ties to Modernism reaffirms the continued relevance of modernism in today’s eclectic post-modern world and gives a glimpse into the processes that lead from modernism to post-modernism. The show runs through April 12.

Varnette Honeywood

In honor of Black History Month, the University Library at California State University Dominguez Hills presents an exhibit featuring selected works from acclaimed African-American artist and illustrator Varnette P. Honeywood, through the end of May, in the Library Picture Art Gallery. The exhibit complements two other Black History Month exhibitions at the University Library: The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles: The Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection and the annual African American Quilters of Los Angeles Quilt Exhibition.

Taking Sides

The Little Fish Theatre presents Taking Sides, at 8 p.m. March 6 through April 4. The short play is about a U.S. officer investigating individuals and their ties with the Nazi party. On March 29, the play will show at 2 p.m. Individual tickets are $27 and $25 for seniors.

John Elgin Woolf: Master of Hollywood Regency

The Palos Verdes Art Center will present the work of American architect John Elgin Woolf in an exhibition running from March 20 through May 29. More than 50 selections from the Woolf archive currently housed at the Art, Architecture & Design Museum at University of California, Santa Barbara will be available to view.

The Real Thing

Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing is being performed at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and at 2 p.m. Sundays through March 28, at the Long Beach Playhouse. The Real Thing is about an articulate and romantically idealistic playwright who receives a challenge from his wife: take the inept play of a "political prisoner" named Brodie and rework it into a theatrical triumph. In the process, the writer must show his wife that Brodie is more of a thug than a victim of political repression, all the while challenging his own long-held concepts of love, marriage and fidelity. Tickets for adults are $24, seniors $21 and students $14.

Can the Artists of the World be Censored?

Can the Artists of the World be Censored? puts together art work by the artists who were interviewed in a recent article by Andrea Serna for Random Lengths Newspaper, documenting artists reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Ties to Modernism

Ties to Modernism reaffirms the continued relevance of modernism in today’s eclectic post-modern world and gives a glimpse into the processes that lead from modernism to post-modernism. The show runs through April 12.

Varnette Honeywood

In honor of Black History Month, the University Library at California State University Dominguez Hills presents an exhibit featuring selected works from acclaimed African-American artist and illustrator Varnette P. Honeywood, through the end of May, in the Library Picture Art Gallery. The exhibit complements two other Black History Month exhibitions at the University Library: The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles: The Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection and the annual African American Quilters of Los Angeles Quilt Exhibition.

Taking Sides

The Little Fish Theatre presents Taking Sides, at 8 p.m. March 6 through April 4. The short play is about a U.S. officer investigating individuals and their ties with the Nazi party. On March 29, the play will show at 2 p.m. Individual tickets are $27 and $25 for seniors.

John Elgin Woolf: Master of Hollywood Regency

The Palos Verdes Art Center will present the work of American architect John Elgin Woolf in an exhibition running from March 20 through May 29. More than 50 selections from the Woolf archive currently housed at the Art, Architecture & Design Museum at University of California, Santa Barbara will be available to view.

Can the Artists of the World be Censored?

Can the Artists of the World be Censored? puts together art work by the artists who were interviewed in a recent article by Andrea Serna for Random Lengths Newspaper, documenting artists reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Ties to Modernism

Ties to Modernism reaffirms the continued relevance of modernism in today’s eclectic post-modern world and gives a glimpse into the processes that lead from modernism to post-modernism. The show runs through April 12.

Varnette Honeywood

In honor of Black History Month, the University Library at California State University Dominguez Hills presents an exhibit featuring selected works from acclaimed African-American artist and illustrator Varnette P. Honeywood, through the end of May, in the Library Picture Art Gallery. The exhibit complements two other Black History Month exhibitions at the University Library: The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles: The Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection and the annual African American Quilters of Los Angeles Quilt Exhibition.

Taking Sides

The Little Fish Theatre presents Taking Sides, at 8 p.m. March 6 through April 4. The short play is about a U.S. officer investigating individuals and their ties with the Nazi party. On March 29, the play will show at 2 p.m. Individual tickets are $27 and $25 for seniors.

John Elgin Woolf: Master of Hollywood Regency

The Palos Verdes Art Center will present the work of American architect John Elgin Woolf in an exhibition running from March 20 through May 29. More than 50 selections from the Woolf archive currently housed at the Art, Architecture & Design Museum at University of California, Santa Barbara will be available to view.

Can the Artists of the World be Censored?

Can the Artists of the World be Censored? puts together art work by the artists who were interviewed in a recent article by Andrea Serna for Random Lengths Newspaper, documenting artists reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Ties to Modernism

Ties to Modernism reaffirms the continued relevance of modernism in today’s eclectic post-modern world and gives a glimpse into the processes that lead from modernism to post-modernism. The show runs through April 12.

Varnette Honeywood

In honor of Black History Month, the University Library at California State University Dominguez Hills presents an exhibit featuring selected works from acclaimed African-American artist and illustrator Varnette P. Honeywood, through the end of May, in the Library Picture Art Gallery. The exhibit complements two other Black History Month exhibitions at the University Library: The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles: The Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection and the annual African American Quilters of Los Angeles Quilt Exhibition.

Taking Sides

The Little Fish Theatre presents Taking Sides, at 8 p.m. March 6 through April 4. The short play is about a U.S. officer investigating individuals and their ties with the Nazi party. On March 29, the play will show at 2 p.m. Individual tickets are $27 and $25 for seniors.

John Elgin Woolf: Master of Hollywood Regency

The Palos Verdes Art Center will present the work of American architect John Elgin Woolf in an exhibition running from March 20 through May 29. More than 50 selections from the Woolf archive currently housed at the Art, Architecture & Design Museum at University of California, Santa Barbara will be available to view.

Can the Artists of the World be Censored?

Can the Artists of the World be Censored? puts together art work by the artists who were interviewed in a recent article by Andrea Serna for Random Lengths Newspaper, documenting artists reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Ties to Modernism

Ties to Modernism reaffirms the continued relevance of modernism in today’s eclectic post-modern world and gives a glimpse into the processes that lead from modernism to post-modernism. The show runs through April 12.

Varnette Honeywood

In honor of Black History Month, the University Library at California State University Dominguez Hills presents an exhibit featuring selected works from acclaimed African-American artist and illustrator Varnette P. Honeywood, through the end of May, in the Library Picture Art Gallery. The exhibit complements two other Black History Month exhibitions at the University Library: The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles: The Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection and the annual African American Quilters of Los Angeles Quilt Exhibition.

Taking Sides

The Little Fish Theatre presents Taking Sides, at 8 p.m. March 6 through April 4. The short play is about a U.S. officer investigating individuals and their ties with the Nazi party. On March 29, the play will show at 2 p.m. Individual tickets are $27 and $25 for seniors.

John Elgin Woolf: Master of Hollywood Regency

The Palos Verdes Art Center will present the work of American architect John Elgin Woolf in an exhibition running from March 20 through May 29. More than 50 selections from the Woolf archive currently housed at the Art, Architecture & Design Museum at University of California, Santa Barbara will be available to view.

Can the Artists of the World be Censored?

Can the Artists of the World be Censored? puts together art work by the artists who were interviewed in a recent article by Andrea Serna for Random Lengths Newspaper, documenting artists reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Ties to Modernism

Ties to Modernism reaffirms the continued relevance of modernism in today’s eclectic post-modern world and gives a glimpse into the processes that lead from modernism to post-modernism. The show runs through April 12.

Varnette Honeywood

In honor of Black History Month, the University Library at California State University Dominguez Hills presents an exhibit featuring selected works from acclaimed African-American artist and illustrator Varnette P. Honeywood, through the end of May, in the Library Picture Art Gallery. The exhibit complements two other Black History Month exhibitions at the University Library: The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles: The Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection and the annual African American Quilters of Los Angeles Quilt Exhibition.

Taking Sides

The Little Fish Theatre presents Taking Sides, at 8 p.m. March 6 through April 4. The short play is about a U.S. officer investigating individuals and their ties with the Nazi party. On March 29, the play will show at 2 p.m. Individual tickets are $27 and $25 for seniors.

John Elgin Woolf: Master of Hollywood Regency

The Palos Verdes Art Center will present the work of American architect John Elgin Woolf in an exhibition running from March 20 through May 29. More than 50 selections from the Woolf archive currently housed at the Art, Architecture & Design Museum at University of California, Santa Barbara will be available to view.

Beyond the Valley of the Flight Attendants

Enjoy Beyond the Valley of the Flight Attendants, at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays Feb. 27 through March 28, at The Found Theatre in Long Beach. In an age when “calculated misery” is the new business model for major air carriers, nobody does misery like SuperSaver Airlines. Tickets are $20 for first class and $15 for the penny pincher.

The Real Thing

Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing is being performed at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and at 2 p.m. Sundays through March 28, at the Long Beach Playhouse. The Real Thing is about an articulate and romantically idealistic playwright who receives a challenge from his wife: take the inept play of a "political prisoner" named Brodie and rework it into a theatrical triumph. In the process, the writer must show his wife that Brodie is more of a thug than a victim of political repression, all the while challenging his own long-held concepts of love, marriage and fidelity. Tickets for adults are $24, seniors $21 and students $14.

Can the Artists of the World be Censored?

Can the Artists of the World be Censored? puts together art work by the artists who were interviewed in a recent article by Andrea Serna for Random Lengths Newspaper, documenting artists reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Ties to Modernism

Ties to Modernism reaffirms the continued relevance of modernism in today’s eclectic post-modern world and gives a glimpse into the processes that lead from modernism to post-modernism. The show runs through April 12.

Varnette Honeywood

In honor of Black History Month, the University Library at California State University Dominguez Hills presents an exhibit featuring selected works from acclaimed African-American artist and illustrator Varnette P. Honeywood, through the end of May, in the Library Picture Art Gallery. The exhibit complements two other Black History Month exhibitions at the University Library: The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles: The Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection and the annual African American Quilters of Los Angeles Quilt Exhibition.

Taking Sides

The Little Fish Theatre presents Taking Sides, at 8 p.m. March 6 through April 4. The short play is about a U.S. officer investigating individuals and their ties with the Nazi party. On March 29, the play will show at 2 p.m. Individual tickets are $27 and $25 for seniors.

John Elgin Woolf: Master of Hollywood Regency

The Palos Verdes Art Center will present the work of American architect John Elgin Woolf in an exhibition running from March 20 through May 29. More than 50 selections from the Woolf archive currently housed at the Art, Architecture & Design Museum at University of California, Santa Barbara will be available to view.

Beyond the Valley of the Flight Attendants

Enjoy Beyond the Valley of the Flight Attendants, at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays Feb. 27 through March 28, at The Found Theatre in Long Beach. In an age when “calculated misery” is the new business model for major air carriers, nobody does misery like SuperSaver Airlines. Tickets are $20 for first class and $15 for the penny pincher.

The Real Thing

Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing is being performed at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and at 2 p.m. Sundays through March 28, at the Long Beach Playhouse. The Real Thing is about an articulate and romantically idealistic playwright who receives a challenge from his wife: take the inept play of a "political prisoner" named Brodie and rework it into a theatrical triumph. In the process, the writer must show his wife that Brodie is more of a thug than a victim of political repression, all the while challenging his own long-held concepts of love, marriage and fidelity. Tickets for adults are $24, seniors $21 and students $14.

Can the Artists of the World be Censored?

Can the Artists of the World be Censored? puts together art work by the artists who were interviewed in a recent article by Andrea Serna for Random Lengths Newspaper, documenting artists reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Ties to Modernism

Ties to Modernism reaffirms the continued relevance of modernism in today’s eclectic post-modern world and gives a glimpse into the processes that lead from modernism to post-modernism. The show runs through April 12.

Varnette Honeywood

In honor of Black History Month, the University Library at California State University Dominguez Hills presents an exhibit featuring selected works from acclaimed African-American artist and illustrator Varnette P. Honeywood, through the end of May, in the Library Picture Art Gallery. The exhibit complements two other Black History Month exhibitions at the University Library: The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles: The Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection and the annual African American Quilters of Los Angeles Quilt Exhibition.

Taking Sides

The Little Fish Theatre presents Taking Sides, at 8 p.m. March 6 through April 4. The short play is about a U.S. officer investigating individuals and their ties with the Nazi party. On March 29, the play will show at 2 p.m. Individual tickets are $27 and $25 for seniors.

John Elgin Woolf: Master of Hollywood Regency

The Palos Verdes Art Center will present the work of American architect John Elgin Woolf in an exhibition running from March 20 through May 29. More than 50 selections from the Woolf archive currently housed at the Art, Architecture & Design Museum at University of California, Santa Barbara will be available to view.

Can the Artists of the World be Censored?

Can the Artists of the World be Censored? puts together art work by the artists who were interviewed in a recent article by Andrea Serna for Random Lengths Newspaper, documenting artists reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Ties to Modernism

Ties to Modernism reaffirms the continued relevance of modernism in today’s eclectic post-modern world and gives a glimpse into the processes that lead from modernism to post-modernism. The show runs through April 12.

Varnette Honeywood

In honor of Black History Month, the University Library at California State University Dominguez Hills presents an exhibit featuring selected works from acclaimed African-American artist and illustrator Varnette P. Honeywood, through the end of May, in the Library Picture Art Gallery. The exhibit complements two other Black History Month exhibitions at the University Library: The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles: The Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection and the annual African American Quilters of Los Angeles Quilt Exhibition.

Taking Sides

The Little Fish Theatre presents Taking Sides, at 8 p.m. March 6 through April 4. The short play is about a U.S. officer investigating individuals and their ties with the Nazi party. On March 29, the play will show at 2 p.m. Individual tickets are $27 and $25 for seniors.

John Elgin Woolf: Master of Hollywood Regency

The Palos Verdes Art Center will present the work of American architect John Elgin Woolf in an exhibition running from March 20 through May 29. More than 50 selections from the Woolf archive currently housed at the Art, Architecture & Design Museum at University of California, Santa Barbara will be available to view.

Can the Artists of the World be Censored?

Can the Artists of the World be Censored? puts together art work by the artists who were interviewed in a recent article by Andrea Serna for Random Lengths Newspaper, documenting artists reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Ties to Modernism

Ties to Modernism reaffirms the continued relevance of modernism in today’s eclectic post-modern world and gives a glimpse into the processes that lead from modernism to post-modernism. The show runs through April 12.

Varnette Honeywood

In honor of Black History Month, the University Library at California State University Dominguez Hills presents an exhibit featuring selected works from acclaimed African-American artist and illustrator Varnette P. Honeywood, through the end of May, in the Library Picture Art Gallery. The exhibit complements two other Black History Month exhibitions at the University Library: The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles: The Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection and the annual African American Quilters of Los Angeles Quilt Exhibition.

Taking Sides

The Little Fish Theatre presents Taking Sides, at 8 p.m. March 6 through April 4. The short play is about a U.S. officer investigating individuals and their ties with the Nazi party. On March 29, the play will show at 2 p.m. Individual tickets are $27 and $25 for seniors.

John Elgin Woolf: Master of Hollywood Regency

The Palos Verdes Art Center will present the work of American architect John Elgin Woolf in an exhibition running from March 20 through May 29. More than 50 selections from the Woolf archive currently housed at the Art, Architecture & Design Museum at University of California, Santa Barbara will be available to view.

Can the Artists of the World be Censored?

Can the Artists of the World be Censored? puts together art work by the artists who were interviewed in a recent article by Andrea Serna for Random Lengths Newspaper, documenting artists reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Ties to Modernism

Ties to Modernism reaffirms the continued relevance of modernism in today’s eclectic post-modern world and gives a glimpse into the processes that lead from modernism to post-modernism. The show runs through April 12.

Varnette Honeywood

In honor of Black History Month, the University Library at California State University Dominguez Hills presents an exhibit featuring selected works from acclaimed African-American artist and illustrator Varnette P. Honeywood, through the end of May, in the Library Picture Art Gallery. The exhibit complements two other Black History Month exhibitions at the University Library: The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles: The Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection and the annual African American Quilters of Los Angeles Quilt Exhibition.

Taking Sides

The Little Fish Theatre presents Taking Sides, at 8 p.m. March 6 through April 4. The short play is about a U.S. officer investigating individuals and their ties with the Nazi party. On March 29, the play will show at 2 p.m. Individual tickets are $27 and $25 for seniors.

John Elgin Woolf: Master of Hollywood Regency

The Palos Verdes Art Center will present the work of American architect John Elgin Woolf in an exhibition running from March 20 through May 29. More than 50 selections from the Woolf archive currently housed at the Art, Architecture & Design Museum at University of California, Santa Barbara will be available to view.

Can the Artists of the World be Censored?

Can the Artists of the World be Censored? puts together art work by the artists who were interviewed in a recent article by Andrea Serna for Random Lengths Newspaper, documenting artists reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Ties to Modernism

Ties to Modernism reaffirms the continued relevance of modernism in today’s eclectic post-modern world and gives a glimpse into the processes that lead from modernism to post-modernism. The show runs through April 12.

Varnette Honeywood

In honor of Black History Month, the University Library at California State University Dominguez Hills presents an exhibit featuring selected works from acclaimed African-American artist and illustrator Varnette P. Honeywood, through the end of May, in the Library Picture Art Gallery. The exhibit complements two other Black History Month exhibitions at the University Library: The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles: The Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection and the annual African American Quilters of Los Angeles Quilt Exhibition.

Taking Sides

The Little Fish Theatre presents Taking Sides, at 8 p.m. March 6 through April 4. The short play is about a U.S. officer investigating individuals and their ties with the Nazi party. On March 29, the play will show at 2 p.m. Individual tickets are $27 and $25 for seniors.

John Elgin Woolf: Master of Hollywood Regency

The Palos Verdes Art Center will present the work of American architect John Elgin Woolf in an exhibition running from March 20 through May 29. More than 50 selections from the Woolf archive currently housed at the Art, Architecture & Design Museum at University of California, Santa Barbara will be available to view.

Can the Artists of the World be Censored?

Can the Artists of the World be Censored? puts together art work by the artists who were interviewed in a recent article by Andrea Serna for Random Lengths Newspaper, documenting artists reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Ties to Modernism

Ties to Modernism reaffirms the continued relevance of modernism in today’s eclectic post-modern world and gives a glimpse into the processes that lead from modernism to post-modernism. The show runs through April 12.

Varnette Honeywood

In honor of Black History Month, the University Library at California State University Dominguez Hills presents an exhibit featuring selected works from acclaimed African-American artist and illustrator Varnette P. Honeywood, through the end of May, in the Library Picture Art Gallery. The exhibit complements two other Black History Month exhibitions at the University Library: The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles: The Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection and the annual African American Quilters of Los Angeles Quilt Exhibition.

Taking Sides

The Little Fish Theatre presents Taking Sides, at 8 p.m. March 6 through April 4. The short play is about a U.S. officer investigating individuals and their ties with the Nazi party. On March 29, the play will show at 2 p.m. Individual tickets are $27 and $25 for seniors.

John Elgin Woolf: Master of Hollywood Regency

The Palos Verdes Art Center will present the work of American architect John Elgin Woolf in an exhibition running from March 20 through May 29. More than 50 selections from the Woolf archive currently housed at the Art, Architecture & Design Museum at University of California, Santa Barbara will be available to view.

Can the Artists of the World be Censored?

Can the Artists of the World be Censored? puts together art work by the artists who were interviewed in a recent article by Andrea Serna for Random Lengths Newspaper, documenting artists reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Ties to Modernism

Ties to Modernism reaffirms the continued relevance of modernism in today’s eclectic post-modern world and gives a glimpse into the processes that lead from modernism to post-modernism. The show runs through April 12.

Varnette Honeywood

In honor of Black History Month, the University Library at California State University Dominguez Hills presents an exhibit featuring selected works from acclaimed African-American artist and illustrator Varnette P. Honeywood, through the end of May, in the Library Picture Art Gallery. The exhibit complements two other Black History Month exhibitions at the University Library: The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles: The Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection and the annual African American Quilters of Los Angeles Quilt Exhibition.

Taking Sides

The Little Fish Theatre presents Taking Sides, at 8 p.m. March 6 through April 4. The short play is about a U.S. officer investigating individuals and their ties with the Nazi party. On March 29, the play will show at 2 p.m. Individual tickets are $27 and $25 for seniors.

John Elgin Woolf: Master of Hollywood Regency

The Palos Verdes Art Center will present the work of American architect John Elgin Woolf in an exhibition running from March 20 through May 29. More than 50 selections from the Woolf archive currently housed at the Art, Architecture & Design Museum at University of California, Santa Barbara will be available to view.